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Executive summary
Most corporate Information Technology departments are tasked with protecting an ever-increasing
volume of business applications and data. At the same time, budgets are not expanding to match this
growth. The only way to meet these business requirements is to “do more with less.” In a drive for
greater efficiency, the IT industry has moved rapidly toward server virtualization. Having now realized
the benefits of virtualization, the industry has moved to the next step for even greater efficiency:
converged infrastructures such as VCE Vblock™ Systems.
During the move to server virtualization, early adopters quickly discovered that the use of traditional
backup, recovery, and archiving solutions for daily data protection creates bottlenecks in a virtualized
infrastructure. Those bottlenecks not only extend the required backup window, but they also set a cap
on the number of virtual servers that can exist on each physical server blade.
The EMC Avamar data protection product on VCE Vblock systems directly addresses and resolves
the “backup bottleneck” problem in virtual environments. Avamar is extremely effective at delivering
backups in less time, using fewer network resources and fewer virtual server resources than other
options. In addition, it is tightly integrated with VMware. All of this translates into real capital savings
and operational benefits. For these reasons, Avamar is an excellent choice to be used with Vblock
systems.
When used along with EMC Data Domain on Vblock systems, Avamar will, in many scenarios,
expand backup scalability and further lower the cost per terabyte of data backup.
This VCE-recommended backup solution includes two options, along with best practices for each:
An Avamar-only solution on Vblock systems
A highly effective combination of Avamar and Data Domain on Vblock systems
Using the Avamar interfaces and workflows, one can quickly and easily direct enterprise-wide
backups to both of these EMC deduplication platforms, while simplifying the backup management
infrastructure. This combination offers the benefits of Data Domain’s scale and performance and
Avamar’s simplicity and efficiency, as well as Vblock systems’ power and scalability.
This paper highlights the specific features of these integrations, and explains how the integration of
Data Domain systems into the Avamar management framework can enhance the management and
optimization of backup operations without additional management overhead.
Described are the solutions architectures’ hardware, software, and best practices for each solution, as
well as the cabinet modules offered for these solutions.
This paper also explains how to use the Avamar Administrator management tools to control data
flow, and provides two examples with steps for using Avamar Administrator.
Benefits
The benefits of using the data protection solutions and best practices described in this paper include:
The best of breed compute, networking, storage, and virtualization technologies
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